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Maintenance & Technical => KX500 Original => Topic started by: Mar-Gun on April 25, 2014, 05:11:17 PM

Title: Main Case Sealant
Post by: Mar-Gun on April 25, 2014, 05:11:17 PM
 Hello, haven't split the cases on a Kawasaki in some 40 years or so. If I remember correctly I used some sort of adhesive sealant from Kawasaki on the split joint between the main cases. What are we using in the 21st century ?
Title: Re: Main Case Sealant
Post by: Foxx4Beaver on April 25, 2014, 05:11:58 PM
Yamabond 4

(https://sp2.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608011586478081406&pid=15.1)

there's others, but this stuff is more than proven.
Title: Re: Main Case Sealant
Post by: sandblaster on April 25, 2014, 05:27:16 PM
+1....
It's Motorrad approved...

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a289/Motorrad/Kxmotor%202/DSC_4869.jpg)
Title: Re: Main Case Sealant
Post by: Foxx4Beaver on April 25, 2014, 05:35:37 PM
Quote from: sandblaster on April 25, 2014, 05:27:16 PM
+1....
It's Motorrad approved...

and I've been using Yamabond products before he was even born :-D
Title: Re: Main Case Sealant
Post by: Foxx4Beaver on April 25, 2014, 05:42:56 PM
a tiny dab also works great as a thread locker too...especially on VF2 screws.
Title: Re: Main Case Sealant
Post by: sandblaster on April 25, 2014, 05:48:48 PM
Quote from: Foxx4Beaver on April 25, 2014, 05:42:56 PM
a tiny dab also works great as a thread locker too...especially on VF2 screws.

Are you saying you had a screw loose?  :-P
Title: Re: Main Case Sealant
Post by: Foxx4Beaver on April 25, 2014, 05:51:08 PM
nope...just saying it works better than Loc-tite!
Title: Re: Main Case Sealant
Post by: sandblaster on April 25, 2014, 05:56:55 PM
Sure... now you tell me after I Loctited all of mine... :-D
Title: Re: Main Case Sealant
Post by: dirk_411 on April 25, 2014, 11:48:58 PM
Ive been recommended hondabond on more than one occasion.   So I looked into it at my local honda power sports and auto dealer and was told hondabond was only states side and that they use permatex sealer here in canada.  Any thoughts?
Title: Re: Main Case Sealant
Post by: Foxx4Beaver on April 26, 2014, 03:23:57 AM
Quote from: dirk_411 on April 25, 2014, 11:48:58 PM
Ive been recommended hondabond on more than one occasion.   So I looked into it at my local honda power sports and auto dealer and was told hondabond was only states side and that they use permatex sealer here in canada.  Any thoughts?

there are a couple members on here that have used Permatex to seal up their cases, without any issues....not everyone agrees with it on the other hand :|...I've never used it as a case sealant, but it does work pretty good on other applications.

Yamabond, Hondabond, Threebond...they're all good quality sealers...and probably all pretty close to the same exact thing with different names.